Official Swarthmore Decisions: Class of 2012

HarrietMWelsch
Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:26:42 +0000

Actually, the joke predates the mascot fun by many decades. Manticore has cropped up as a faux name for the Phoenix now and again ever since the paper (which, as you probably know, was christened after Parrish “rose from the ashes” of the big fire) first appeared.

-Phoenix staffer from far too way back.